The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has urged the National Population Commission to conduct an error free exercise for the sake of acceptability by all and sundry.
Adeleke gave the charge in Ede, while playing host to the NPC Commissioner in the state, Senator Mudashiru Hussain.
According to Leadership, Adeleke emphasized the importance of population census; how critical it is for national planning and it’s guidance in meeting the needs of the citizens in terms of infrastructure, services and general development.
The governor gave this charge, stating that it was imperative, as such exercises conducted previously in the country had been fraught with controversies which must be avoided now.
Part of the things the governor also stated was, “the need to deploy appropriate technologies in the head count so that its accuracy can be enhanced”.
While assuring the authority of NPC that Osun is ready and fully committed to mobilize the people for the exercise, Adeleke called on the residents of Osun to see the exercise as a national civic responsibility that must be undertaken, just like the general and state elections.
Meanwhile, earlier, Hussain boasted that the commission is fully prepared to carry out the exercise, affirming that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) had given them the matching order.
While explaining that the Commission has been embarking on training and retraining of functionaries since 2018, the commissioner disclosed that the Commission has started training functionaries for Enumeration Area demarcation, where the larger unit of the entire land is divided into smaller units for effectiveness of the exercise.
He also assured that his officials had been trained digitally for the smooth running of the programme.
